Vista As A Virus #2

At my company, Lotus Notes is stored on the D:\ drive @ D:\notes with the id file and various nsf stored in D:\notes\data.

Except if you have Vista as your OS.

On Vista, although you tell Notes to use D:\notes\data it will actually use C:\Users\App Details\Local\VirtualStore\IBM\notes\data

Why is it like this?

Because Vista could!

Because Vista is a Virus!

This might not seem such a serious problem. Unless you are using Notes on more than one machine and need to copy the id file between them. And then you have to go in search of the files.

Yes, that is a one off operation. But why the heck should you need to search?

Aarrgghh!!

Vista as a Virus #1

Among many other duties and responsibilities, I am also a Domain Admin of my company's Active Directory. Despite having a normal user account, I must confess to frequently logging into my desktop with my Domain Admin account. On one such occasion, I was trying to track down a DNS issue that our Sydney office was suffering, when I realised that I needed to flush my local DNS resolver cache. Pretty straight forward? Just open a Command Prompt:

C:\>"ipconfig /flushdns"

The requested operation requires elevation

C:\>

Oh! That didn't work! What the heck is "elevation"? Other than sounding like a U2 song!

Well, having googled around and found this thread on a Microsoft site, it appears that as an Active Directory Domain Admin I was insufficiently priviledged on my Desktop to perform that operation from a Command Prompt!

To be able to perform that sort of operation in a Command Prompt I should have started the Command Prompt with "Run as Administrator".

Some may argue that this is merely improving security, but I would not be one of them. Since then, I was started up FileZilla which informed me there was an update available and did I want to install it. I said yes. FileZilla downloaded the file successfully, and then failed. Guess what! Actually running the install program was an operation which required elevation. Grrr!